finned and other cool boats...

[59ponchorat]

anybody got any pics of late 50's to early 60's finned boats?got a line on one im gonna check out tomorrow...

 

[Gastrick]

Hey ponchorat, check out this site. it's dedicated to that type of thing. It also has a forum. I have a pic of a cool finned boat that I took. I'm looking for it now.

http://www.fiberglassics.com/

 

[Gastrick]

Here ya go. It was towed by a matching car. Way cool set up.

 

[59ponchorat]

Here ya go. It was towed by a matching car. Way cool set up.

now that one is cool...i found one that looks like my 59 pontiac..its called a south sea samoan...only found one pic and thats it..what i would give to get my hands on one of those..

 

[59ponchorat]

got any idea who the manufacturer of that one is?

 

[Willowbilly3]

I saw this one for sale at Chikasha swap a few years back.

 

[dmw56]

got any idea who the manufacturer of that one is?

I'll bet that's custom built using Desoto tail fins like the car hauling it.

 

[GulfCoastGasser]

Go to FiberGlassics they have the coolest old fiberglass boats.

http://www.fiberglassics.com/galleries/bitb/default.htm

 

[eugene vik]

Falls Flyers

I used to restore falls flyers, made in little falls minn. the 1955 and newer were finned and laid by chopper gun. One I did just won another show last year after all I did the body paint and inlays on stripes 20 year ago
the pree 55 boats were hand laid up and lighter, not as precession and have no fins, all my picures are hard copies in my shop
was a good business till some **** stiffed me on a stop payment for about $4,000

 

[Willowbilly3]

Go to FiberGlassics they have the coolest old fiberglass boats.

http://www.fiberglassics.com/galleries/bitb/default.htm

That's the same hull as the gold one

 

[Gastrick]

You are correct WB3. Based on the decal on the tail fin of the red one, I found some info. It looks like a 1957 model made by Herters Boats. The model was named "Herter's Chrome Fiberglas Duofoil World Famous Walk-Through Deluxe Model Flying Fish Runabout."

 

[50Ford]

Those are so sweet

 

[Willowbilly3]

I doubt if Herter's actually built it, probably laid up by some other company and the Herter's sticker stuck on. I had a Herter's snowmobile carcass once and the parts were almost all generic.